Robot comes from the Czech word robota which means forced work or labor. We use the word "Robot" today to mean any man-made machine that can perform work or other actions normally performed by humans, either automatically or by remote control. Here are a few interesting facts you may not know about robots.

They say it was an accident. The first known case of robot homicide occurred in 1981, when a robotic arm crushed a Japanese Kawasaki factory worker.

More than a million industrial robots are now in use, nearly half of them in Japan.

PackBot's manufacturer, iRobot, has also sold more than 2 million Roomba robotic vacuum cleaners, with the same environment-sensing technology.

Cybernetics professor Kevin Warwick calls himself the world's first cyborg, with computer chips implanted in his left arm. He can remotely operate doors, an artificial hand, and an electronic wheelchair.

Robotics expert Henrik Christensen predicts humans will be having sex with robots within four years.

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"A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm." -Isaac Asimov

"Robotics and other combinations will make the world pretty fantastic compared with today." -Bill Gates

"Robots are interesting because they exist as a real technology that you can really study - you can get a degree in robotics - and they also have all this pop-culture real estate that they take up in people's minds." -Daniel H. Wilson

"When it costs you the same amount of manufacturing effort to make advanced robotic parts as it does to manufacture a paperweight, that really changes things in a profound way." -Hod Lipson

If something robotic can have responsibilities then it should also have rights." -Emily Berrington